Execution date set for 2nd TN inmate

Billy Ray Irick to face lethal injection on Jan. 15

7:31 AM,
Oct. 25, 2013

Written by

Brian Haas
| The Tennessean

Tennessee has moved death row inmate Billy Ray Irick to the front of the line to be executed in Tennessee.

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Irick to be executed by lethal injection on Jan. 15, putting him ahead of death row inmate Nickolus Johnson, who is scheduled to die April 22. Johnson, who killed Bristol Police Officer Mark Vance in 2004, was the first person scheduled to die in Tennessee in more than a year and a half.

Irick raped and killed a 7-year-old Knoxville girl he had been baby-sitting in 1985. ...